TikTok’s wind-down immediate initially solely performed calming music to remind teenagers to take a break from the app at nighttime. It was additionally solely proven to teenagers below 16. However now, the prompts will embody meditation, too, and will probably be out there to adults who toggle on “Sleep Hours” from the Display Time settings web page as nicely.
Whereas testing its meditation function, TikTok says it discovered 98 p.c of customers below 16 stored it on after making an attempt it for the primary time. Teenagers can ignore the preliminary 10PM reminder, however the app will show one other full-screen immediate later that’s more durable to dismiss.
TikTok has till June nineteenth to divest its US operations or face a ban, however that hasn’t stopped it from making an attempt to handle security considerations. In March, TikTok additionally launched a Time Away software that folks or caregivers can use to forestall their little one from accessing the app at sure occasions.
